The International Volleyball Federation, (FIVB) cancelled Iran as the hosting country of the championship tournament for not allowing women to enter sports stadiums. The Iranian regime’s volleyball federation chief wrote to the FIVB and stated, “The presence of foreign women, including embassy employees, foreign spectators, the families of players of foreign teams and … are permitted to enter the stadiums and Iran has allocated a special section for them.”
The FIVB Secretary-General wrote in response, “Only foreign women can enter Iran’s stadiums to watch the games?!”
(State-run Tabnak website – January 31, 2015)
